User Field Order

• nickfmc

• February 6, 2014 at 4:46 am

I was wondering if there is a way I can change the order that the users are listing when using a user selector field. By default it is alphabetically by username as it is in the WP users listing. I am looking for a way to have them displayed by first or last name when using the ACF user selector?

• Elliot

• February 7, 2014 at 10:16 am

Hi @nickfmc

Currently there is no filter to modify the $args for the get_users function. I’ll add this to the to-do as it should be an easy feature to add.

Thanks
E

• Elliot

• February 7, 2014 at 10:32 am

Hi @nickfmc

Just wanted to let you know I have pushed an update to github containing a filter for the user field $args.

You can hook in and modify them like so:

<?php 

function my_acf_user_query( $args, $field, $post_id ) {
	
	// http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users
	$args['orderby'] = 'nicename';
	
	return $args;
}

add_filter('acf/fields/user/query/name=CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME', 'my_acf_user_query', 10, 3 );

?>

You can also remove the /name=CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME for this to run on all user fields.

Thanks
E

• nickfmc

• April 2, 2014 at 4:11 am

Thanks Elliot, your support is top notch! appreciate the follow up on this.